About the comments
They were offline for a good part of early morning till this afternoon, along with the trackbacks. Sorry about that, but the easiest way to piss me off before 8am now is to hit the blog with 70+ trackback spams and double that for comment spams. The comment spams were dealt with easily enough, but something is going on to where MT-Blacklist doesn't seem to be able to take care of the trackback spam. Not cool.
I'll keep them up for as long as possible, but no, I'm not inviting these asshats to do this crap and have better ways to spend a morning than manually deleting these things. I'd prefer to just turn it all off, it just isn't worth it if it continues.
As a quick note related to the comments, and anonymous comments. I don't keep logs for more than a week, and I like the fact that someone doesn't have to give an email or who they are. However, it can really help me out in case I need/want to get in touch with you for some reason. If you can see a case where I'd want to get in touch with you, but are worried about spam, just protect it in some way. IE, db.NOSPAM@gmail.removethis.com.
Posted by drunkenbatmanFebruary 12, 2005, at 11:29 AM
Comments (3)
Posted by: Pitte at February 12, 2005 01:38 PM
Trackback spam is on the rise, possibly because of better spam protections and the introduction of the nofollow tag from google and others. Maybe they think nofollow is not being used for trackbacks and is for comments? Very stupid. I just turned it off for my domain.
Posted by: g. at February 12, 2005 07:19 PM
Well, I have accepted the spammers as a temporary evil of having a blog. (although we only get an average of about 20 spam-attemps per day and it only takes me about two minutes to delete them all I can imagine your pain).
Personally I can't wait until WordPress 1.5 is out and I can use OSA, in which I have great hope...
That and some day there'll be a plugin that publicises my list of verified spammer IP's as an additional rss feed. It is my hope that this will lead to some nice synergy effects in the blogosphere.
The trackback spam is killing me too, thought not to the degree you're having problems with it. The bastards who do this shit should be strung up by the short hairs.